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Friday, June 8, 2012

The Real Life Version of A Face in the Crowd: Jimmy Dean (1957 - ?)

Watch this remarkable bout of on-air testiness. I believe this happened while the Budd Schulberg - Elia Kazan work A Face in the Crowd was still playing theaters. Although, it might actually be 1959. Either way it feels like Jimmy Dean is playing Lonesome Rhodes in a teleplay of the film.

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So what happened? I've never heard of an incident where Jimmy Dean dumped a pile of soap into the living room of the president of Lever Bros. Looks like it didn't work. Maybe that's why he diversified and went into making sausage.

According to Wikipedia, this Dean show left the air in June 1959 so I guess he didn't get enough soap. Still after this came his hit "Big Bad John" and his ABC prime time series so he made out okay. I wonder if Lever Brothers was a sponsor for the later series.

P.S. The Face In The Crowd character is named Lonesome Rhodes, not Dusty.

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